The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-18 00:00:00

THE SOUTHER - Li CONFEDE.EACY, (From the limes Correspondent.) IticamoND, June 7. Once more have the shouts of the combatants and the rear of their numerous artillery been heard in the streets of Richmond, and by the calm and im perturbable President of the Confederacy himself. Gnce more have the hills and valleys in front of the Southern capital been stained with blood and ploughed by cannon balls, and the night air made hideous by the wail of the wounded and the groans of the dying. For one month the armies of the North and the South have been wrestling for the mastery —been grappling each other in a death struggle. During that brief period torrents of blood have been spilt, and thousands of hearts have ceased to beat for ever. And yet the Federal army, not withstanding it has been handled so roughly, has marched with such rapidity, has made such nume rous and desperate assaults, and has lost so heavily, is believed to be not one whit nearer to the goal of its ambition than it was when it crossed the Rapidan. True it is not so far from the Confedes rate capital if you measure the distanee by miles or leagues ; but if you measure it by the obstacles in the way—the steady lines and glittering bayonets of Lee's dauntless eeterans—the Federal com mander would seem to be as far back from the ac complishment of the object of his campaign as when stood upon the red hills of Culpepper. Looking back over the period which has elapsed since Grant appointed army in moti on , put his large and well we are able to appreciat e the merits of a campaign which seems destined to end in disaster. The state ments of Northern newspapers, the admission of officers who have been taken prison ers , an d t h e ap parent confidence of Grant hims e lf, l eave no dou b t that he fully expected when he crossed the Rapidan and turned Lee's right flank that the latter would retire u pon Richmond, and th a t th ere wou ld b e a race between them as to which should reach there first. If such were his expectations he was con vinced of his error at the Wilderness and Spotsyle v a nia Court House, where he found that the Con• federates had not retreated upon the Capital, and that he with his far outnumbering army was not equal to the task of driving them out of his way. The only alternative left him, therefore, was either to abandon the undertaking or to imitate the crab, end advance sideways. He adopted the latter plan, and it must be confessed he has prosecuted it with energy and success, since he has at the same time both covered Washington and threatened Richmond. In this way he has avoided the necessity of leaving a considerable force in his rear to protect his capital as APClellan did when he placed M'Dowell at Fre dericksburg in 1862 with a column of 40,000 men. It had been wiser, however, if he had declined battle at Spotsylvania and the Wilderness, since he lost more men at those places than M'Dowell did at Fredericksburg. Indeed if he had detached the same force to cover the capital that M'Clellan did, and had moved with the main body of his army around to West Point by water, he might possibly bave formed a junction subsequently with the de tached column—at all events he might have saved the many thousand men who now sleep beneath the soil of Virginia and crowd the fetid hospitals of the North. It is only his advance that can be characterised 68 having been prosecuted with vigour and success. The plan of campaign itself is faulty and unwise to the last degree as the result has shown, Whatever his advisers may urge in extenuation, the fact will remain that he might have reached his present position without a battle or the loss of a man. On the Ist instant General Lee, suspecting Grant would attempt to repeat what is known among the Confederates as his " crab movement," began to manoeuvre for position. Kershaw's and Hoke's divisions of Anderson's Corps (the latter tempora rily attached to the corps) were sent to the right to the old battle-fields of Gaines Hill and Cold Har hour, with orders to occupy the eminences in that quarter. They attacked the enemy in the front, and drove them to their intrenchments. Breckin ridge and Mahone of Hill's Corps were equally successful in gaining certain advantageous positions. In the afternoon the enemy attacked Heti], and were repulsed by Cooke's and Kirkland's brigades, also of Hill's Corps. In the meantime a force of infan try was pushed from the Whitehouse up to Tuns tall's station on the York River Railway, on the Confederate right. It has since been ascertained that this force constituted a part of Butler's army, the greater part of which has already joined Grant. On the morning of the 2d it was discovered that Grant had edged away to the right, as Lee had suspected he would do. He had not gone far, however, for Lee hugged his lines too closely for him to move except under cover of darkness. The Confederates were put in motion on a parallel line, while Early, commanding Ewell's corps (Ewell being sick) swung round late in the afternoon and took the enemy in flank, drove him from two lines of intrenchments, took 700 prisoners, and inflicted a heavy loss in killed and wounded, his own loss being trifling. Gordon, who has been made a major. general for his gallantry at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania, was conspicuous for good behaviour on this occasion. Night put a stop to the conflict. Meanwhile Breckenridge, supported by Willcox, proceeded under orders to attack the enemy on Turkey Hill on the extreme right, and drove him from it after a sharp contest, thus securing a strong and important position which the Federals had al• ready occupied. This hill commands the approaches from the north and east to the military bridges which M'Ciellan threw over the Chickahominy. It was evident that Grant was aiming for :these bridges; consequently Gen. Lee continued to move his army to the right on the evening of the 2d, until he had thrown it right across Grant's path, where the latter supposed he had comparatively a small force. Great must have been Grant's surprise therefore, at half-past 4 o'clock on the morning of the 3d, when he moved against the Confederates, to find them in greater force where he expected to find them weakest, and standing firmly up to their work behind some rude breastworks which they had thrown up the preceding night. His assault ex tended along the entire line, except on the extreme right, and was everywhere repulsed with heavy less. It was not repeated on the left until near the close of the battle, when it was again repulsed. The chief attack was made upon Kershaw's, Field's, and Hoke's divisions of Anderson's corps in the centre, a nd upon Breckenridge's and Mahone's divisions o f Hill's corps next on their right, the heaviest and most determined assaults being directed against Kershaw and Hoke and the left of Breckenridge. i n ma ny respects the battle was a repetition of that of the 12th of May at Spotsylvania Courts house. While he kept up a threatening attitude along the whole line, Grant massed a very heavy force and hurled it again and again with tremendous violence against a single p oint. For a few minutes he broke over the breastworks at a salient on Brack inridge's left, and captured three guns—but, in leas time than it takes me to narrate the circumstances, General Finnegan rushed into the breach with his Floridians, and swept the enemy out, retook the guns which the y had just finished loading, and turned them upon thei r flyi ng co lumns. Seven dif ferent assaults were made against Kershaw's front, each one of which, as were all those made against Field, Hoke, and Breckiuridge, was repulsed with a slaughter that has no parallel in the wa r except at Spotsyleania . It is tr ue that each succeeding a ssault was feebler than the on e that e p rczat d a d i t ; but the Federals came near enough a the Confederate marksmen to cut th em aamw: for the wide blue swathes stretching far across the i Th e slaughter was sufficient, one would think, to sa tisfy even Grant's thirst for blood. Th e b attle raged w ith great violence until half-p as t 10 o ' clock a, _i„ t five hours—when the Federals retired b e aten at all points, and took shelter behind their intrenchuients near at hand. Bat few prisoners were lost or taken by either side. The loss sustained by Grant in killed and wounded is estimated at 15,000 men. The loss sus tained by the Confederates does not reach 1,000. At first I w as disposed to discredit the latter re port, but a visit to the hospitals, to the medical chiefs of divisions and corns, and the medical direc tor of the army, has removed all doubt. The testi mony of officers in the trenches is confirmatory of the reports derived from medical men. Brigediere General Law, who received a painful though not dangerous wound over the eye, states that up to the time he was wounded-9 a.m.—but three men in his entire brigade had been hurt, including him. self. No people were ever more thoron3h'y in earnest than the people of these States. The schools have all been closed except for boys and girls of tender years ; women who have been delicately reared willingly forego the luxuries and comforts to which they have been accustomed all their lives, and give up their linen and silks for the coarse fabrics produced by the looms of the country; they perform the postal service in many parts of the country, and may be found at the wayside "homes," the hospitals, the sewing establishments, end, indeed, wherever there is work to be done or suffering to be assuaged. Wealthy planters and thrifty merchants and bankers gladly take their places in the trenches, and bear all the fatigue of the campaigns equally with the poorest ; ministers vacate their pulpits to preach in the woods and fi e ld s, an d grayha i red fathers send their sons to the camp and take their places at the handles of the plough. And now, when the army /4 engaged in a mortal struggle with a multitudinous foe, pious people everywhere, of every sex and con dition, in public meeting and private devotions, offer prayers day and night without ceasing for the suc• cess of the cause and the safety of their loved ones. Can such a people be conquered ? Ought such a people to be subjugated ? Even boys of 14 and 15 years of age run away from their parents to join the army. And what are the horrors from which these people are striving to escape? The inhabitants re siding on either bank of the lower waters of James River had already suffered all the evils which usually follow in the bloody track of civil war, but it has been reserved for General Butler to impose new burdens and practise additional barbarities. In some instances the men have been shot down by drunken black soldiers or scourged to death, and then nailed to trees and gate-posts, and their neighbours, for asking permission to inter their re mains, have been forced from their homes and transported to distant prisons. Where the men have been made to suffer thus, the reader may imagine, though I shall not attempt to depict the unmention able horrors to which women have been subjected, and under which they have actually perished! Meanwhile, the world looks on with folded hands, and grave European statesmen even desire the suc cess of the party one of whose trusted officers is this wretch Butler ! Grant renewed his attack on the nights of the 3d and 4th, and again oa the night of the sth, but without result ; each assault was repulsed with heavy loss to himself, and but little to the Confede rates. During the night of the sth he retired his right wing about two miles, and placed it behind a swamp, which protects both the flank and front of this wing of his army. Not content with this security, he has thrown up strong intrenchments around his flanks and along his entire front. It should have been stated before that the battle of the 3d was fought upon the same ground as the battles of Gaines' Mill and Cold Harbour in 1862. It was at Gold Harbour that Jackson first struck M'Clellan's flank and rear in his first grand flank movement, a fact well-known to the confederates, and from which they drew fresh inspiration. The position of the armies was reversed in some respects, the Federals occupy ing nearly the same ground the Confederates held in 1862. In the engagements of that year at Gaines' Mill and Cold Harbour, M'Clelian, though strongly intrenched, was driven from his position with heavy loss. Thus far Grant has found it impossible to dislodge the Confederates from the same ground. The latter availed themselves upon some parts of the field of the works from which they formerly drove .111`Clellan. Among the killed on the Confederate side are Brigadier-General Doles, of Georgia ; Colonel L. M. Keitt, of South Carolina, formerly a distinguished member of the United States House of Representa tives, and Colonel Edwin Willis, of Georgia, a late graduate of West Point, and one of the most pro. mising officers in the Confederate army. Among the wounded are Brigadier-General Law, of Ala bama, Kirkland of Georgia, and Lane of North Carolina, the two first slightly. Major-General Breeksuriage had his horse killed under him in the night attack of the 4th. On the evening of the 5% General Grant sent a communication to General Lee, proposing that when the armies were not actually engaged either party may, upon notification to the other, succour its wounded and bury its dead. General Lee re. plied that he preferred the custom common on such occasions—to wit, that the party desiring to remove its wounded and inter its deed should send in a flag of truce, and ask permission to do so, adding that the burial party should be accompanied by white flags. To this Grant rejoined, affecting to under. stand General Lee as accepting his proposition, and informing him that he would send forward a force between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock p.m. of the 6th, to care for the wounded and killed, and that they would be instructed to carry flags of the kind designated by General Lee. The latter immediately informed him that he had misunderstood him, and that if he, Grant, would send out a party for the purpose indicated without first obtaining permission under flag of truce to do so, he would cause the party to be warned cff by his pickets. 1 am not informLd whether any further communication has been received from Grant. His dead and many of his wounded still remain in front of the Confederate intrenchments, the one poisoning the air by their stench, and the other vexing it by their cries for help. The Confederate cannot discharge the duties of humanity on account of the fire of the Federal sharpshooters, and Grant is unwilling to solicit per enission to do it, since it would imply his defeat. ' Thousands of his dead were left unburied at the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court-house for the same reason. understand that Grant has mace the usual request for permission to bury his dead, and that Lee has granted it. THE MURDER OF MR BRlGGS.—Explained by an imaginary confession in the Spectator ;—" Yes, it is all true as you say, and my name is Herman ---- Swiss, of a German Canton, and I will tell you all about it. I was at Bow, on the station, and I saw this old gentleman, and I wanted money much, very much. No, I aai not a thief, but I wanted money very much, and the old gentle man took out his watch, and I saw his bag, and I thought how pleasant it would be to take both, and as I was taking my seat I saw him get into a carriage alone, and I got out and went to his carriage, and sat opposite him. He sat in his corner and dozed. I thought I would take his watch, and to prevent his crying out I would stun hint, so I dropped my glove, and he stooped kindly enough co pick it up, and 'nit him on the back of his skull with a little life-P:eservor I carry, and snatched the mach. But the blQw was not hard enough, and he revives and looked at me, and said he should know me again, and. I thought of a prison, and hit him agaia, and again, till the blood spurted all over me, and he lay dead. Then I got horribly frightened, and thought only how to get rid of his body, and I seized him and stretched out my hand over the door, and opened the handle, making it all bloody, and lifted him up, and struck my knee for ward and threw him on to the next set of rails, thinking all in a moment the next train would run over him, I was in a dreadful fright, and did not search him or take off his diamond ring 2—how was I to take his ring with the hand so clutched with the pain— but when he was gone I triad to open his leather bar, and made it bloody, but it was empty. Then I looked out, and the body was not on the rails but between them, and I looked in and saw the blood on the cushion and the matting, and I got still more frightened, and when the train reached Hackney I jumped out, and the porter was looking for sixpences, and the ticket man worried by people passing him, and I ran down the ema bankment in the dark, and buttoned my coat over the bloody shirt, and pat on my gloves over my bloody hands, and got safe aw ay. Next day I wanted to get rid of the watch and chain, for 1 wanted money very much, but I thought every would be visited, and b e i ng a f ore i gner I receivers, so I went t o M r D ea th' s an d changed the chain, and took another and an old ring with a did notpawnbroker's know shopany head on it. I didn't want that, but I was afraid to resist too much, so' took it and stood in the shadow, and walked away rapidly. No, nobody assisted me, for lam not English, and I didn't want to murder the man. No, I don't regret it very much, I want e d money so much, and he threatened me. Why di d I pitch out the b o d y ? B e caus e I wa s i n a fright, and it was almost dark. Why did I t r y f or th e wa t c h before we reached the station? Because I thought if I stunned him I could, say he was in a fit, and slip away quietly in the confusion, and you see afterwards I hadn't many wits, the blood frightened me so: How did I know that region so well? I didn't know it, but I wanted to avoid the door, and so I jumped down there, and got away. Yes, I took his hat in my fright, and should have taken his money, only I had no time, and I thought his leather bag was sure to have money," THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1864. DRAMATIC COLLEGE FETE, The fete held annually at Sydenham for the benefit of the Royal Dramatic College has now become one of the recognised entertainments of the London summer, and the season would scarcely reach its normal termination were not two of its latter days enlivened by the conversion of the grand transept of the Crystal Palace into the semblance of a country fair. An imitation of "Richardson's Show," a conjuror's booth occupied by Messrs. Toole and Paul Bedford, a circle of stalls, presided over by ladies of histrionic fame, and an "Aunt Sally," under the guardianship of Mr. Buckstone, are among the established symbols of July. All the usual ceremonies took place on Saturday last, when the fete was opened by Mr. Romer, the permanent Herald of the College, who, shortly after 12 o'clock at noon, opened the fair with mock solemnity. No sooner was this concluded than the whole fair was replete with life and noise, for even at noon the transept was crowded with an expectant body of visitors, and the orators on the parades of the different shows vied with each other in bawling for patronage. Most attractive among these temporary places of amusement were "Richardson's Show," " Womb well's Menagerie," and Messrs. J. L. Toole and Paul Bedford's " Temple of Magio"—which last did not, hawever, open until 3 o'clock, the conjuror and his assistants being the principal artists in Richardson's company during the earlier afternoon. The play, entitled " Don Sobre Isquierdo (very literal Spanish for " over the left"), was quite on the prin ciple of those once popular tragedies that in a few years will probably be obliterated from the public mind, and the audience roared with laughter to see Mr. Toole attired as a romantic lover sacri ficing his life for the sake of a bulky innanzorata, represented by Mr. Paul Bedford. When relieved by another company these gentlemen returned to their own " temple," Mr. Toole went through a series of legerdemain tricks, while Mr. Bed ford waited upon him as a silver-buttoned page. These tricks, it should be observed, were not, as on former occasions, a burlesque of the conjuror's art, but were performed by genuine sleight of hand and with a neatness which would have done no discredit to a Frikell or a Hermann, Real feats were also performed by some unnamed juggler in a :booth inscribed " Gyngell's Wonderful Exhibi tion." Womb well's Menagerie presented a most strking appearance on the outside, decorated as it was with a number of extremely well-executed pictures of animals that covered a large space. " Parents and guardians" were assured that the beasts might be visited without the slightest danger, and the good faith of this assurance was soon made manifest, to those who entered the booth, for the cnce savage animals had been stuffed. One cage alone held living inhabitants—namely, a lion and some monkeys, personated by human actors, and a ' stalwart Van Amburgh, represented by Mr. J. Robins. The showman of the menagerie was Mr. Addison, who performed his duties with a great deal of humour. Next in importance to these three principal shows was Mr J. Clarke'a " Museum of Antiquities." The antiquities were objects of the commonest kind, described by tickets attached to them as highly interesting relics. These inscriptions bad been de vised with much ingenuity, and there was an at traction of the Lon-deceptive kind in the shape of Lupini's small horse, exhibited on former occasions. It is melancholy to itate that shortly after the open ing of the show some wounds were discovered in one of the poor little animal's haunches, and these were only to be accounted for by the conjecture that some blackguard, out of wanton cruelty, had cut the horse with a knife. There were several other booths of smaller dimen• sions, and for the amusement of the loungers about the fair there were, in addition to Mr. Buckstone's " Aunt Sally," a Jack-in-the Green, attended by Messrs. C. Smith and R. Romer as "My Lord" and " My Lady," a Punch and Judy show, and a wandering acrobat, whose energies were kept down by the vigilanee of a sham policeman. The stalls for the sale of fancy articles, &c., were, as,usual, ranged in a circle encompassing the centre of the building, the names of the lady - vendors being inscribed over them in letters composed of pink rosettes. The circle was, however, inter rupted this time by an admirable copy of Shaki pere's birthplace, set up on the GCOaDiOn of the Ter centenary celebration, and exhibited on Saturday by Mr. Phillips, of the Adolphi. Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. A. Mellon, and several others were at their posts immediately after the opening of the fair, and attracted a large number of purchasers, bat some of the ladies did not arrive till late in the afternoon. Among these was Mademoisella Stella Colas, who at once became such an object of uni versal curiosity that her stall was not even to be approached without a crush—the throng increas ing as the afternoon advanced. Altogether the fete was admirably conducted and went off with great spirit. To-day (Monday) the same entertainment will be given, the price of ad mission, 2s. 6d. on Saturday, being reduced to one o'clock, and then proceeded to the westward, also in search. Should the Copenhagen or any other merchant vessel re quire assistance off the Bay of Biscay, it is possible she may be relieved by the Encounter, 14, Capt. R. Dew, from China, which touched at St. Helena on the Ist June, or by the screw steam frigate Narcissus, 59, Rear Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8., from the Cape of Good Hope. These ships are expected daily at Plymouth. Railway and Other Companies, • MEDITERRANEAN HOTEL (LIMITED). An adjourned general meeting of this company was hold on Friday at the London Tavern, with a view to ascertain how many share and scrip holders would agree to continue in the company, and how many would accept a return of £2 10s. per share ; Dlr E. H. Craufurd, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that a resolution had been come to at the last meeting between the directors and the committee of shareholders to the following effect : " That with a view to ascertain how many shareholders and holders of scrip will agree to continue their connection with the company, and how many will refuse, the com mittee and directors be authorised jointly, if they think fit, to take counsel's opinion as to the legal effect of such an arrangement, and to communicate jointly with the share holders, and to take such other steps as may be necessary; and this meeting stand adjourned to this place for the :16th of July, 1864, at three o'clock precisely." _ This had been embodied in a circular to the shareholders stating that it was extremely desirable that the directors and committee should be in possession of the views of the shareholders at least two or three days before the adjourned meeting. They therefore requested the shareholders to re turn an :answer on or before Wednesday, the 13tH inst., stating whether they desired to remain in the company or not, telling them that if no reply were received from them it would be assumed that they preferred to remain in the company rather than surrender their shares on receiving £2 10s. per share. The result of the circular showed that the holders of 1,245 shares upon which £5 each had been paid were willing to surrender them on receiving back £2los. per share. Then there were the shares hold by the committee who had not replied to the circular, but he understood they were willing to take the £2 10s. with the rest—that would add 433 shares more. making 1,675. iThe scrip holders were also willing to agree to the proposition. After several propositions were rejected, an amendment by Mr Harris was carried to the effect that as it appeared the holders of about 1,700 sha re s were willing to receive a return of £2 10s per:share if they could legally do so, and the directors being of opinion that this agreement could be carried out, it be resolved that the directors pledge them selves to carry out that agreement with the committee, and that the meeting stand adjourned to the sth a August. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE NEW ERA IN OUR FOREIGN POLlCY.—Political circumstance and the mood of the hour are now playing very decidedly into Mr Cobden's hands. His favourite formula of " no foreign politics for England" is being practi cally adopted by most politicians—by many who would be scarcely loth even to profess it as a creed ; and if we should have during the next ten years no wiser statesman than during the last ten, Mr Cob den may yet live to see the time when people will be as little ashamed of his maxim that our ambas sadors should be the commercial travellers of Eng land, as they now are of its less vulgar equivalent —"no foreign polities," Those who discredit and disgrace a nobler creed are responsible for the reac tion which inclines men to follow Mr Cobden into a theory of international behaviour—we cannot call it a duty—so mean and selfish that it could not be disgraced. The fact, however, cannot be denied that Mr Cobden's principles have gained a great step in English estimation is consequence of the suddencloud which has descended on the representa tives of a spirited foreign policy. The great register of English opinion has already openly declared for them. It has proclaimed in article after article that a new era has begun, in which England is to hold her tongue, acquiesce in everything, hoWever flagrant and shameful, that happens abroad, unless it touches her own interests, and as a proof of her sincerity, is not to look on smiling while Denmark is ground to powder, but openly to proclaim her intention to withdraw all resistance to the slave trade, and to tolerate it calmly for the future. Public opinion, says the limes, has declared decisively "that we are neither to fight nor threaten except when our interests are imme diately concerned ln this respect we view the debate of last week as the com mencement of a new era. Public opinion has pronounced itself decisively, and we summon all statesmen who would hold a permanent place in the councils of their country to mark and to obey it." And again within two days the same great inter preter of the majority of Englishmen took the opportunity of the conversation in the House of Cenainons concerning Brazil, to clinch the general maxim that we must " reform the policy of the Foreign Office in accordance with feelings of the times in which we live," by a forcible practical illus tration. The African squadron for putting down the slave trade, it said, is the greatest possible trans gression of the newly-received theory. Counting up, it remarks, the expense of the squadron to Engtie:: taxpayers, with the fevers and other sufferings of its crews, and the much greater sensitiveness of the white race to "sufferings which are the daily lot of a poor savage, to whom they appear as the ordinary destiny of humanity," remembering, too, "that we are not answerable for the negro, while the Govern ment is deeply responsible for the fate of every sub ject of the Queen entrusted to its charge,"—count ing and considering these things, it openly calls upon the nation to take care " that the question of the prevention of slavery may not escape notice as a prominent part of the present system of intermed dling in the affairs of foreign nations." When Mr Cobden reads this noble exposition of the future English foreign policy, we are sure that he will begin to take in the Times again. Even he could not have put the matter more broadly, and we doubt whether he would have put it so courageously. That touch of infinite contempt for " the sufferings which are the daily lot of a poor savage, to whom they appear as the ordinary destiny of humanity," —that significant valuation of a few English deaths from yellow fever and a few annual pence out of the taxpayers' pockets as evils so great as to transcend absolutely and enormously that of the degradation of a whole race and the barbarism of a vast continent, are developments so instructive of the true moral logic of Mr Cobden's policy, that we feel sure that astute tactician would never have brought them forward, But the limes, as usual not caring for the votes of fastidious men, but wishing to reap the full advantage of appealing straight to the coarse and selfish English common sense, has perceived that this is the true moral in. ference involved. If we are to present an apathetic front to the sufferings and wrongs of foreign races and nations, we must accustom ourselves at once to feel that the suffering of one Englishman will out weigh in our moral scales the sufferings of any number of foreigners. Wo must learn at once to be wrapped up in ourselves; we must, as Dr. New man says, say " what is required by our position ;" we must learn to disbelieve if we can that " the very negro whom we tread upon, in corporal an guish feels a pang as great as when a Saxon dies ;" we must, in short, feel and think unselfishly, and be selfish to our heart's core, if we are to ensure a safe and consistent policy of selfish isolation and " no foreign polities." As the man who makes up his mind to push his own interest in the world is obliged in self-defence and consistency to believe from the bottom of his heart that his interests have an infinitely higher and deeper claim on him than any other person's in the whole world, so if we are to inaugurate " the new'era" in earnest, we must prepare for it by depreciating the sufferings of others, thinking lightly of their wrongs, and find ing out reasons why we should not permit them to ruffle our enjoyments. Moreover, it is quite consis tent with, nay, almost demanded by the same prin ciple, that we should be aggressive in the East while isolating ourselves in the West; and hero we think the 7 imes is more consistent than Mr Cobden. Toe same policy which stands aloof where alliances would involve something of disinterestedness and sclf-saari flee, will properly encroach and threaten where only weak Japanese or Chinese are concerned. When we repudiate once for all the maxim parcere eubjectis debellare superbss, it is likely enough that we shall adopt in its place the coucsel to be tender to the haughty, and to press with all our arma ments upon the oppressel. The two principles hang perfectly together. And before long we have nu doubt that Mr. Cobden will be convinced by his new allies how right and natural it is that the Eng lish selfishness which takes the form of cold indiffe rence in three continents should take that of haughty arrograece in the fourth. The "commer cial travellers" will be right in bullying where they can get a large custom by bullying then by servility. After we have broken off our international ties with Europe and America, and spurned contemptuously the suffering barbarians of Africa, it will be but natural to recoup ourselves by a showy and dicta torial policy in Asia for the humiliations of isola tion. In proportion as we shrink in the West, we shall desire to puff ourselves up in the East. As we lose deference here among our equals, we shall swell with ostentation there among our inferiors. Nor is this the worst. It is quite impossible that a foreign policy built upon selfishness can help react ing On domestic policy. " Am I my brother's keeper ?" was not originally the language of a wise foreign policy, but of an unhappy as well as guilty domestic policy j and those who adopt it in the former capacity can hardly fail to see it resume something of its original significance. Who that has eageify advocated a selfish and self-occupied policy for England can upbraid a class for stand- I n moo : in , recisely the "erne manner from the will consulting for its life of the nation, ants while o Wn benefit in m the narrower Aes:, ignorin f g dn't); even superciliously discrediting the notion es - towards other classes V Cannot we see this leaven already beginning to work on the class which we should suppose as yet the least likely to be affected by it, in such letters ce those from Nile It. Coningsby which have been paraded in the Tints*? The principle of those letters is, for the working class, exactly the principle which Mr. Cobden wishes to see applied to the.international policy of England, and which Cain wistaet: to see applied to the fraternal policy of families. Mr. Con ingsby put forward att ostentatious desire to stand aloof from the political privileges Of the nation as advantages s6attely deserving to be weiehed in the scale against the acquisition of private wealth, knowledge, and independence by the working class—precisely the vie?? of English I foreign policy,which Mr. Cobden wishes to force on the nation. And if this disposition should spread in the working eisss, we believe it will be the most certain preparation for a vulgar and tyrannical Use of the political advantage;' of numbers, whenever the great working class does at last the reins of power ;—just as Mr. Cobden's selfish " steno aloof " policy for England in Europe tends more than any other to foster tke unscrupulousness with which the commercial classes are disposed to press the power of England in China and Japan where the trade feeling is (perhaps prudently, in its own narrow sense of the word "prudent") as aggressive as it is meek and abject at home in the presence of great Powers like Germany or France. THE SATURDAY REVIEW ON THE FUTURE PROS PECTS OP THE NIINISTRY.—Nothing succeeds like success ; and France, finding that Lord Palmer,- ston's Government is going to stay in, seems ins alined to be friendly once more, to forget the affront of the rejection of the Congress, and to patch up a new cordial understanding with the Whigs. The theory of the Standard, we observe, is, that as the Imperial Government is the most isolated in Europe, and the present English Government is the moat despised, they are brought together by misfortune. They are led, in fact, to cultivate something of that reckless and hollow cordiality with which plain women, who are left out, encourage each other while the pretty ones are dancing. Thus one considerable difficulty is removed out of Lord Palmerston's way, and it is no longer possible to say that, if England is to act cordially with the Emperor, Lord Derby must take effice. The weakest part of the prospects of the Ministry is that it cannot carry its domestic , measures now, and has no hope of carrying them. This Session has added nothing of the slightest importance to the Statute-book, excepting one of Mr Gladstone's measures of encouragement to the economical poor. The Government cannot dictate or even suggest a policy to the House. All it can do is to make it evident that its opponents are as powerful as it is itself. If Lord Derby came in he could not hope to have more of substantial strength than Lord Palmerston has, although the superior discipline of the Conservatives might give them a greater amount of available strength in proportion to their numbers. But then this powerlessness of the Government in consequence of the near balance of parties has been lately shown to be one of the inherent dangers of Parliamentary Government, and not peculiar to England. Lord Palmerston has not any very bright prospect before him. He can scarcely do more than exist ; but at any rate it has been shown that the House does not at present desire another leader, that France, in the long run, is obliged to consult its permanent interests, and that, while the country is so slightly stirred by political feeling as it is now, neither side can hope to achieve a distinguished success. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON OUR SHABBY DESERTION OF DENMARK.—The war between Denmark and Germany is virtually over, and nothing remains but to settle terms of capitulation more or less disastrous to the beaten party. Re• duced by successive defeats, and dispirited by disasters which no heroism could avert, the Danish army is no longer in a condition to interpose more than a temporary obstacle to any extension of their conqaests which the German Powers may choose to undertake, It is probable that by this time the whole of Jut. land is in their possession, nor is there much reason to doubt that the islands and Copenhagen are within their power, should they determine to push matters so far. Lora Palmerston did indeed assure the House of Commons the other evening that no attack upon the capital was contemplated ; but we cannot now place the slightest value upon state ments which only echo the faithless professions of the German Powers. Assuming, as we may no doubt do with perfect safety, that there is no longer any prospect of an English fleet intervening, even so far as to prevent the junction of the German naval forces in the Baltic, it is clear that the Danes are nearly as defenceless on sea as on land. Little, therefore, is left but to wait with patience until the conquerors make known their pleasure. The King of Denmark, at all events, appears convinced that further resistance is fruitless. He has dismissed the Ministry of Bishop Monrad, and formed an other on the basis of peace at any price. What is the pries which he has offered to pay—what is the price which Au;;:ria and Prussia may please to de mand—we are as yet norant. Looking at the antecedents of the new Dania Premier, there is v reason to fear that Christian Ix. D.: not be dis inclined to conciliate M. von Bismarck by entering upon a reactionary course of domestic policy. it is scarcely likely that he would be permitted by his subjects to purchase at such a cost more favour• able terms of peace. With regard to the terms which Prince John of Glucksburg may have been commissioned to offer at Berlin, or to the conditions which Prussia may have prescribed, nothing is at present known. It is said that the Danish monarch has offered to surrender Holstein and part of Schles wig to Prussia, but even if it be true that such a proposal has been made, and that it is not unac■ ceptable to the Court of Berlin, we can hardly think that the latter would venture to set their allies at defiance by appropriating to themselves the whole gain of the war. Another version of the proposals of which the Prince is the bearer, is that they are based upon the personal union of the Duchies with Denmark, and the entrance of the whole kingdom into the Germanic Confederation. But although such a project might not be distasteful either to Count Moltke or to the King (who is, after all, a German), we cannot think it would be assented to by the Danish people. The one point upon which they have set their minds, is the complete emanci pation of their country from German influence, and we do not think that they would be ready to increase that influence either for the purpose of retaining a purely nominal supremacy over the Duchies, or for that of revenging themselves on the neutral Powers, who have left them to their fate. Undoubtedly if such a scheme were carried out, it would bring a severe, but just, retribution upon Louis Napoleon for his desertion of an ancient ally. It is indeed highly improbable that France would regard with indifferencesuch an ap;grandieement of the Germanic Confederation. To England, on the other hand, it would be a matter of comparative indifference ; and after the Emperor's refusal to join us in maintaining the independence of Denmark, we should certainly not be willing to assist hire in averting a contingent danger from France. It is evident that some un easiness is felt at Paris, both with respect to these negotiations, and to the alleged formation of a new Holy Alliance. The disavowals of Austria and Prussia have clearly failed to convince diplomatists and statesmen—who have probably good reason for their incredulity—that the despatches published by the Morning Post are destitute of authenticity. M. Drouyn de Lhuys has been instructed to inform the world that his master will be unable to disre gard the bearing of events as directly affecting the interests of all the maritime powers in the north, and even those of the equilibrium of this part of Europe ; and to express a hope " that no complica tion will arise of so grave a character as to neces sitate our embracing a different policy." The semi official organs of the French Government have once more received the cue to speak well of England, and to dwell with emphasis on the importance and de sirableness of an intimate Anglo-French Alliance. After the experience of the last few years, we know well what this means. It is impossible that we should accept it as a mark of sincere affection; but it is welcome as an indication that the Emper or 's illicit political flirtations in other quarters have met with a signal repulse. THE "EXAMINER" ON RAILWAY COMMUNICA TION.—On railway carriages should be written, " He who enters leaves hope of help and protection." No matter what may happen, the passenger is cut off from all succour between one stoppage and another. The carriage may be on fire, or the wheels broken, and the bottom knocking to pieces against the road, or some personal outrage may be in pro cess of commission—robbery, rape, or murder, And there are no means of making known the danger, and stopping the train and obtaining assistance. All this has long been felt ; but the terrible murder on the North London line, and some recent out rages against woman, have produced a fearful con viction that there is no safety in the system of isolation in the railway carriage, and that there must be an end of it. The surest and best method of communication is the Continental, by a gangway running along the side of the train, by which the guard visits the carriages, takes tickets, and performs other services of the road. If this mode of communication were adopted a signal of alarm would summons the guard to the spot, and he would judge whether or not the occasion was one for communicating with the driver and stopping the train. The objection that nervous people would be stopping the train for foolish fancies cannot, therefore, apply to the arrangement. The check to outrages and crimes would be most effectual, for though a ♦illain might hope to so master his victim by a sudden attack so as to prevent recourse to the means of alarm, yet he never could feel secure against guard's visits to the window. At any moment -night be passing by and hear the sounds -ies for help. But these visits of the guara of a struggle or e._ ' are not pleasant on foreign the guard, it may be saw,. have the guard pok lines, and people will not like is goin on. ing his head into carriages to see wh.: Well, but the question is whether a little ih: g rusicln (if it amount to that) is not preferable to robber, - ; rape, or murder. The face of the guard appearing when he is not wanted is not so bad as the face of a grinaing maniac. And is not improved safety worth some small inconveniences ? For the last twenty years the answers to all demands for legislation to place railway management under three or four broad and simple rules for the public safety, has been "Do not diminish their responsibility. Leave them to their responsibilities." But what has their re sponsibility availed ? Simply to make them pay damages; but not to cause them to correct the im prudences through which the mischief has hap 3 pene 4 . We could name a company which had to pay matt.; thousands for a disaster attended of loss ful injuries per- - hie, wan - and fright bling severed yersons, all through Yet a few tra . ll l s . on the same line manently the practice of runnin b at intervals of three mk..Tute6: ^e was resumed, days after the catast ro p he the p ractL 11 and has been continued. I t s eems quite ..7 in ,f_ata a ' tion of companies t o run these risks, for the y have sometimes to pay so dear, and which migi— t be avoided with so little inconvenience or disturb ance of their arratlgements. But they prefer chancing it, to borrow the phra2 , 3 of the most impudent of men, sailors. The responsibility upon which such reliance has been placed has, after a trial of a quar ter of a century, effected nothing for the improve,• ment of the public safety, removed nk: moved causes of danger, and the only remedy lies in i. talation. be The interference need not be much, and shoul d confined to a few rules, which cannot possibly any harm, though it may be easy to dispute the advantage of them, such, for example, as a longer interval between ;,rains, and communication between passengers and guards, and between guards and drivers. A SPLENDID PORTRAIT OF DOMENICO SCAR. LATTI, the only one in existence, has, we learn from the Reader, been cli,scoverecl iii Madrid. Li* INTELLIGENCE. ' 16, COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) HOPLEY V. HOPLEY. At the conclusion of the judge's summing ti p, The jury retired, and after an absence of about an hour returned into court and requested that the evidence of Dirs. Hopley as to her last interview with her husband might be read to them. This was accordingly done, and at a p ater past five they again returned, and stated that •they were unanimous upon 0219 issue, but were 7 to 2 upon and were not likely to agree, [lt will be rememb ered that the cause was tried by consent before 9 special jurors, 310 more of the panel answering to their names.] Sir J. Wilde asked the respondent it' he would take the verdict of the majority? th e offer Mr Hopley said he would. Sir J. Wilde then repeated the question to the petitione r's counsel. Dr. Wambey, in the absence of his leader (Mr. Kara l6l4 and of their client, was not able to do so. Sir J. Wilde--But would it not be worth while to sea to Mrs. Hopley ? Dr. Wambey said ha would do so ; and after a short delay he stated that though the attorney had not been abl e to communicate with the petitioner, her brother and mother were willing to take the verdict. The foreman then stated that they found unanimously that there had been cruelty—but that they found by a majority of 7 to 2 that it had been condoned. The petitioner therefore fails in hal' suit. Naval and Military intelligence Bear-Admiral Lord Clarence E. Paget, M.P., arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday, and embarking in the tire queen steam yacht, Staff-Commander rattl, accompanied by Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8., paid a visit to the Channel fleet at Spithead. On returning from his Visit to the fleet his Lordship left Portsmouth for Brighton. The Channel fleet is expected to sail from Spithead to day on a cruise westward, probably calling in at Torbay, and afterwards looking in at Bristol, and other ports not visited during last summer's cruise. From the Western ports the fleet is expected to proceed to the north coast of Ireland. The Channel fleet now at Spithead anchorage consists of the Edgar, 71, screw wooden line- of-battle ship, C a pt. G. T. P. Ilornby,flagship of the Admiral cominanding,Sydney Colpoys Decree, C.B. ; the Warrior, 40, iron frigate, etrefr, Capt. Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C.B. ; the Black Prinoa, 40, iron frigate screw, Capt. dame's F. B. Wainwright; the Defence, 16, iron frigate, screw, Capt. A. Phillimore, and the Trineulo, screw wooden gunboat, tender to the flagship, The Gslatea, 26, wooden frigate, screw, Capt. R. Maguire, is under orders to sail from Spithead for the West Indies, snd is expected to convoy out the wooden guboat, germ, Albacore. On Saturday Rear-Admiral R.. 8. Robinson, the Control ler of the Navy, paid an official visit to Chatham ftockyard for the purpose of inspecting the work; in progress and the vessels under construction at that establishment. On arriving at the dock nal he was met by Capt.Btewart ) 0.13., euperhitender_t, and the principal officiahr, and proceeded in the firm Instance to inspect the Iron frigate Bellerophon, in the construction of which very considerable progress has recently teen made, Leaving the dock in which the iron -dad is building, Admiral Robinson visited the ornitheries, which have recently been considerably enlarged to keep pace with the iron shipbuilding works, and examined the working of the powerful steam hammers for forging the heaviest por tions of stem and stern of the Lord,Warden and Bellerophon iron•slad. The Lord Warden was inspected. The progress made in the construction since the last visit of the Control ler was considered very satisfactory, the vessel being com pletely in frame and the operation of fixing the inner course of planking now proceeding. Admiral Robinson also visited the Cadmus, 21, 400 horse power, undergoing a thorough repair, and also the Torch, 5, and after transacting official business with the captain-superintendent returned to the Admiralty in the afternoon. The paddle-wheel steam sloop Bulldog, 6, Capt. C. Wake, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternoon. She left Sheerness on Saturday, June 25, having in tow the hired transport Waubogweez, She conveyed the vessel to the entrance of the roadstead of Madeira and arrived there on the 6th inst. The paddle-wheel steam sloop Gladiator, 6, Capt. F. H. Short, being in attendance, took the trans • sport in tow immediately and left the same day for Cape Coast Castle, where the Waubogweez will embark sick troops for conveyance to the West Indies. The Bulldog left Madeira on the 9th inst., and spoke, July 14, lat 45 40 N, long 9 40 W, the bark Zealand, of Amsterdam, and let 45 12 N, long 9 20 W, the brig Johanna, of Christiana, both bound ont ; and July 16, off the Lizard, her Majesty's ship Cordelia. The United States frigate St. Louis left Madeira on July 6 for the Azores. The hired transport St. Lawrence, 1,093 tons, Captain Toynbee, belonging to Messrs. T. and W. Smith, left Ply mouth Sound on Friday evening with about 30 passengers, including Col. Lamb. The St. Lawrence is gone to Queen town to embark the right wing of the 11th Regiment, when she will sail for Calcutta. A hired transport, said to be the Copenhagen, with a de tachment from the East Indies, has been spoken in the Atlantic short of provisions. On Friday afternoon the screw steamsloop Cordelia, 11, Commander John B. Scott, left Plymouth Sound in search. She was observed off the Lizard on Saturday by the Bulldog. Yesterday one of the Channel squadron, the iron screw ship Hector, 24, Capt. G, W. Preedy, C. 8., made her number off PIS mouth at 8 KENT COAST. The traffic returns on this line for the week ending the 33 inst. amounted on 27 miles to £2,400, and for the corre pending week in 1863 on 10i miles to £35, showing an in crease of 163 miles and £2,315. The traffic for the week ending the 10th inst, amounted to £2,600, and for the cor responding week in 1863 to £95, showing an increase of £2,505 in the receipts, and 161 miles in the length of lino open for traffe. HULL AND HORNSEA. The traffic return on this line for the week ending the 10th inst. amounted to £242, NEWMARKET AND ELY. A proposal has been brought forward for the construction of a line between these points. The proposed capital is £60,000, and the cost of construction is estimated by Mr Valentine, C.E., at £7,000 per mile. DUTCH RHENISH. The receipts for the fortnight ending June 30 amounted to £11,161, and for the corresponding period of last year to £9,862, showing an increase of £1,299. The receipts since the commencement of the present book year, on the Ist of May, including the above, amounted to £12,253, show ing an increase, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, of £1,986. The working expenses for the fortnight amounted to £4,311, or 38'61 per cent, of the receipts, and for the corresponding period cf last year to £3.856, or 39.07 per cent., showing an increase of £l5. The working expenses from the Ist of May to the 30th of June, 1864, amounted to £16,473, or 38 . 98 per cent. cf the receipts, DEMERARA, The traffic receipts on this company's line for the fort night ending the 11th of Juno amounted to 3,470 dole, and for the corresponding periud of 18E33 to 3,155 dole, showing an increase of 315 dols, MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAY. The traffic returns on this company's line, six miles in length, for the four weeks ending the 19th of May last, amounted to £5,982, and for the corresponding period of last year to £1,857, showing an increase of £1,125. The Terrible Railway Accident in Canada. The particulars which have been received of the terrible accident which befel an emigrant train on the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, unhappily confirm the fact that there was a dreadful loss of life, as already stated in the tele graphic despatches published a few days since. It appears that the Necker, a largo packet, similar to those which bring the.emigrants to New York, left Hamburg about the 18th of May, and arrived at Quebec on Monday, the 27th of June, bringing out 638 emigrants. These consisted of Germans, Norwegians, and Poles, whose destination was principally Western Canada, a few being bound for the Western States, and blest of theta had eonsiderable means. On Tuesday night they were forwarded, with the exception of about thirty of the poorer class, by special train from Quebec. There must, therefore, have been fully five hun dred, if not more, en the dare, which proceeded without accident to Be!csil Mountain. Here the river Richelieu is spanned by an iron bridge, on the top of which the cars pass. A drawbridge forms the conneetion between the last pier and the abutment to the Montreal side. The bridge is about 1,100 feet in length to the opening of the drawbridge, and about 45 feet above the water, which is some ten feet deep in the canal under the drawbridge. 'the rule of the company is that this drawbridge should always be sup posed to be open, and that the train should therefore come to a dead stand on approabhing the bridge, and not at tempt to proceed until the proper signal has been given. At fifteen minutes past one on Wednesday morning, when the epeeist train arrived, the drawbridge was open to perMit the passage of a steamer which had some barges loaded with grain in tow. The train, however, did not pull up at all, notwithstanding the established rule, and the dis play of the danger signal, the red light, which should im mediately have warred the eondnetors of the train to stop it, and hot to proceed until the light was changed into a white one. The position of the bridge gives a view of the signal from a distance of 1,624 ft, Heim the Cendeot Of the engine driver is the more extraordinary, as h is stated he could have stopped the train in from 600 ft. to 600 ft. The driver, it is said, admits having seen the danger signal, biit Alleges that be found it impossible to stop the tkalti in time, Whether he could have done so or not was not proved at the time the present particulare were dent,ai the coroner's ineeuest had not then taken place. Certain it is That the train dashed on at a groat pace, and, as might have been expected, when it arriVed at th e draw-bridg.a it was found to be swung ro t und foi som e b oa t s t o pass. vo*n this t7attnihg abyss the cars, with their living freigh t, dashed headlong. 'the locomotive and t en d e r. with the first fly.o cars (baggage), went in first, th e s i x pa s senger cars piling down on top of them With terrifi c Vi o l e ncei beibg preißitated a dietatee Of se t ae 'O faet. A t thi s 4 nr i moiiient, al§ aireadY mentioned, a steamer was pas s i ng th i on gh with sit barges in tow, and the accident would un d ou btedly „have been of a doubly mournful character had it not so haptened that the cars fell on one of the bargee, sinki n g it, but preven tin g the wreck from being submer ge d to suc h a n extent as it would have been had the canal been blear. The last three p assen g er cars, falling on the aecltnitlated debr is of the others, shunted elighlY tie one side, and over to the opposite era. bankment, that is on the Montreal side. From thende the in a l h oo a k rg ed e living were chiefly taken, the other cars containing few who A little child was found, singular to had escaped a grave or mortal injury en the hotrible crash. s ay, altogether unin jured, lying in its dead of the barge se e k_ *, a ' -a`z Marrow escape along with up, and saw the drawbridge open, and, being then itnme:. r t trainhe er s arms; t u d e l: ti e: al a n n diately underneath, had, ust time to snatch his wife and little children away before the care descended on his ves sel. Forty-five dead bodies were recovered early in the day, only 18 of these bein g adults. The remains were conveyed to a shed by the riverside, where they presented a sad spectacle, many of the dead being terribly disfigured. Some of the children were only a year or two old. Harrowing scenes presented themselves in the tempo rary hospitals, where the wounded were placed together. Many of the wounds received by the poor people were about the head and fate, rendering the sight still more hideous. Only one amputation was performed, and that on a woman, who bore the operation in a most heroin manner. The knee joint had been badly fractured, and amputation had to be performed, but the brave woman appeared more dis tressed at her husband's grief than at her own misfor tune, or the pain she was suffering. The Government police did good service in keeping tho people from crowd ing round the sheds, and permitting the free access of fresh air to the sick. Most of those who had escaped were to be seen wandering about seeking relatives or friends, bem :ening their sad fate, the rcelaneholy ending of their hitherto prosperous voyage, and the dissipation of their hopes and anticipations formed on coming to try their fortunes in a new country. The:majority of those saved were adult e, The driver of the train escaped the doom which had fall all upon so many of those committed to his charge. The Moniteur prorn9lgates the lac v voted in the late Legislative Session for fixing che Budget of 1865. The expenses are given at 1,1'50,922,583fr., and the receipts at 1 ,752,036,0621 r,, a bowing a sur plus of 1,113,479 fr. Ironmasters' Quarterly Meeting. DUDLEY, Saturda,v Evening. The ironmastersi meetings for the current q uarter ter ra. mated in this town this evening, but the attendance svae small, and very few transactions were reported. It is guile rally understood that the reduction of £1 per ton on the various descripticns of finished iron will be accepted by the trade; indeed, it would be next to impossible for even t he makers of favourite brands to stand out. At the sa ne time, so much confusion prevails, consequent on the pro ceedings at the Birmingham meeting, that some time so' necessarily elapse before matters settle quietly down. Sane' thing will have to be done about wages, and a suggesti=on has been made that the chairman of the association sh° l ° ,l call a special meeting an the subject. A large number of the furuacemen employed on this of a° of the district are out on strike, but the stocks of pig iron are ample and the prices low, so that the pigmasters are b 3" no means embarrassed at the step which the men have takerl• The various manufacturing trades in this locality are la a healthy state. All the large works are in full operati aln► . and:the new one in course of erection by Lord Dudley j e rapidly approaching completion. In the neighbourhood e' Wednesbury the principal establishments are well engag ed ' especially where the manufacture of railway fittings is CS" ried on. There is coinparativeiy little of unemployed labour ill 313 / quarter, and accounts due this qua r t er day have been pul3C .. tually paid. COUNTRY MARKETS. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. ow of wheat to-day, with a firm domodild,, l3t A moderate is per qr over late prices. Barley very limited in suPP„ a ''' and late prices were supported. Beans higher in Pr,ir —White wheat, from 45s to 50s ; red wheat, 39s to ' l l h Barley—malting, 30s to 37s ; grinding, 27s to 295. (13 '81, old, at 24s to 30s Od ; new, 19s to 255. Beans sold a 3 to 42s per qr. ; new, 35s to 38s. Flour, fine, 32s to 345; super, 36s to 38s per 20 store' NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was a tolerably good supply of wheat to-day , an last week's prices must be considered at fully as wit: money, ar ticle little not being free sellers. In other ar tie little passing. White wheat. 46s to 478 1 Red wheat 42 s to :3 Malting barley 35s to 36s 1 Chevalier barley, 33 s to 0 „ Distilling d 0..... 29s to 30s 1 Oats.. 2 4 s to po, Flour, 28s Od to —s Od per sack from the m iller. 444: YORK*SATURDAY. asA small supply of wheat on offer from the farmers , a as the demand being healthy an advance of is per qr he made for the finest qualities. Barley very scarce, ant i o 0 4 trade rather better at late rates. Beans, which were a 8 id prices favouring sellers, were in meagre supply, Oats firm, at advancing prices. Os t° 241 Wheat, red 3BB to 43s Oats.... .... 2 qp White do .42s to 47s Beans 36 a to v --s Barley .24s to 28s Peas ..• • .....s to 343 Malt, 58s to 60s per qr. ; rye, _32s per qr ; flour, to 34s_per sack. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. A small show of wheat, for which an advance of !fit per qr was made, with a ready sale. Bailey scarce, and ' l t about late rates. Oats were 6d to is up. Beans in reclue s —Old white wheat,:4ls to 465; red, 37s to 428 pvt 3 ba 6° ' ' now white, 448;t0 48s ; red, 388 to 445. Malting rleY, 33s to 36s per qr ; grinding, ' 28s to 30s • oa ts, old, 24s t 268; new, 203 to 245; beans, 37s to 40s ; peas, 34s to 38s' LEICESTER,—SATunDAY. St A tolerable show of wheat, and a firm business done A is per qr advance on last week's rates. Barley came to het ) ,' sparingly, and only met a moderate demand. Oats in OP demand at prices 6d in advance of last week. Beat is wer e in only in moderate supply ; prices in favour of the Fell e j —New white wheat, 45s to 40s; red, 43s to 45a ,per , stone. Old red, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. Barley, ma itit' new, 33s to 35s per qr.; grinding, 26s to 28s; ohl ° s ":' 27s to 295; new oats, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. 13. 02 " old, 40s to 42s per 38 stone ; flour, 25s to 30s per 20 et. 00' Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUB. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. JuIJ ' l ,i, via Marseilles Aug • . Brazil and Cape Yards, by British packet. Aug. '2I Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena July , 9. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southarnpton.July via Marseilles July Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. . 9 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Ju l y a 2 s , ---via Marseilles July 4, India (Bombay), via Southampton July 2' 21. via Marseilles Ju l y 4. Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton July .I,'' via Marseilles Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. . . July 2 01 by U.S. packet.... ocl. by Canadian pack tt.July ~.--- All parts of West Indies, including Chili, I'eru, i J u ly 29 , California. and British Columbia. A YANKEE SELL, OR "NOT TIME EN041611 1 ' 1 ": A correspondent of a Nashville paper tell d a s t°r f. about a person who was going to Chattanooga (la the rs i road. When the train entered the tunnel and t otal dart; ness, said person asked a stranger how long it would be going through. Stranger was a bit of wag, arid rel 3ll f " two hours." Person thought he would avail h Woolf ° 9 the opportunity to don a clean shirt, and about th a time ~ had "shucked himself" the train dashed right i Ate W e, light, exposing his person to the astonished gaze of 5 0133 . hundred pairs of male and female eyes belonging tc 1 08°e0 ,, r gers, He had on no linen, and about as much huraul' clothes as the Apollo Belvidere.—New York Berat'd. ARCHBISHOP WIIATELY once receiving a B, 4 , (1 land for his Oliver :—" The head master of one of 1- a e model schools complained that some of the officers in trus te with the inspection of the schools were unduly oiVei° ll : and not qualified for the duty. Surely,' said the Ar c ': bishop, but ono can judge plum-pudding without being cook.' True, your Grace,' retorted the head muter, c li A ° is not, on that account, qualified to go into the kitchen take the cook's place.'" LADVERTTSEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills Old end Young.—These noble remedies cannot be tv i highly extolled for the beneficial influence they exert eve . , the many maladies incidental to old age, and the vexatitells, irritations accidental to childhood. All sores,. l 4 ulcers, 1 ) legs, and skin diseases, which secretly undermine ` 1 , 6 health and render old ago a prolonged torture, tusY 1. readily removed by the aid of this very cleansing and be' ll a andin ointment, assisted by Holloway's purifying pills; a in the nursery, chaps, chafes, rashes, cuts, sprains , . 3 ' ol burns may be readily cured. These remedies comprise e.. the smallest compass the best means of preventing or i zoving the greater number of diseases which afflict ra' - or kin through their ignorance, negligen ce , hardshiPs) over ° inti:ilgence. Births. 13YRom.—On the 13th inst., at Leek, Staffordshir e, the wife of Commander W. Jones Byrom, Royal of a son and heir. St' EGERTON.—On the 15th inst, at at Bridgewater Hous e, James's, the Hon. Mrs . . Alg,ornon Egerton, ° f daughter. West' GORDON.—On the 16th inst„ at No. 1, ficlkin.stree t the wife of Cosmo Duff Gordon, Esq., of a daughter. . ROBINSON,—On the 14th inst., at Osmoncßhorp e Leeds, the wife of Major Robinson, of a son. Marriages. HASTINGIS—PAGET .--011. the 16th inst., at St. GO; ~g °3 ; Hanover-square, the Marqu's of Hastings, t o the .1-1 - 11 Lit Fl ore nce Cecilia Paget, youngest daughter f the Dr.lorq of Anglesea. S M ITH—YEITES.—On the 16th inst., at St. Jange?„ E ' , , i tc: cadilly, Percy Shawe Smith, Esq late Captain I°, t 7 i , Dragoons. to Annette, youngest d aug hter of W. l e' Yeates, Esq., of Norfols-crescent, Hyde.park. Deaths. the 15th inst., at his residence, Lince' s Varlll/ BATTEN.-012 Welwyn, Hert..g: Mr. Abraham Batten, aged E 6. cc . BRUCE.—On the 14th inst., at Leamington, Lady , 13 „ rti w ai widow of the late Sir James R. Bruce, Bart., a hill, Londonderry. Cox.—On the 14th inst., at Dundee, Robert Cos, s4'° aged 83. Cnoss.—On the 13th inst., at Kentish-town, John Crosg, EEci,, aged 78. n ft' ClifiYTOlL. — On the 21st April, of wounds received at % , ,,r sa , kau, New Zealand, Ensign Alfred Chaytor, of the u Regiment. IVESTBROOK.—On the 12th inst., at Heston, Middles°. Edward Westbrook, Esq., aged 56 London: Primed and Prblialied by WILLIAM ANDO, 14 oi No, 12, Strn Priner,SUN ()Mee .No• „f Strand, l in the Pr d, eoinctt a ot the lavoy, ntheCovntl Aliddieux,—Alonday, July 18,11804. mss"' N